Evelyn Alexander,
Athabascan from Minto, AK
Evelyn Alexander lives in a tiny village north of Fairbanks. She sings of the first time she saw a boat belonging to the white man. A gem!
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Atka Dancers--Unangax from Atka, AK
Atka, along the Aleutian chain has 100 Unangax people living there. Look close and you'll see Milt and I in the middle. The youth do an amazing seagull dance--making the bird sounds as they dance.
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Maggie Paul, Passammaquoddy from New Brunswick, Canada...met us wearing a pair of comfortable sweat pants and a red T-shirt and looking like somebody's favored auntie—until she opened her mouth to sing. So spirited you think she will float away, pulled up by the fine strands of the creator’s web.
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Black Lodge Singers, Blackfoot from White Swan, MT
...Black Lodge—Take it Away! That’s the call at many pow wows across the United States as the Master of Ceremonies calls the drum group to begin. And Black Lodge does just that—takes it away.
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Stephan Small Salmon, Flathead from Ronan, MT
... is a pow wow man. He sings and dances competitively along the pow wow trail during the summer months, often walking away with the big prize money. During the winter he cuts wood. An Oyate Bestseller.
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Walker Calhoun, E. Cherokee from N. Carolina
...is a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokees. He was born in these mountains and heard only Cherokee spoken until he was 12. His family had little in the way of material wealth, but he was drawn to the music and dances of his people.
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Trebol, Mexico, Part One
We had a call from Maggie Paul, our Oyate friend from New Brunswick. She asked could we be in Mexico in a week to be at this five day festival. The first part of this 2 part show is leading up to the ceremony. Includes music from Mexico, the Amazon, Venusuala and Canada.
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Michele Stock, Seneca from Salamenca, NY
...We first met Michele years earlier and loved her voice and her music so much, we sought her out for Oyate. She has spent many years creating wonderful familiar children's songs and hymns and translating them into Seneca. Beautiful.
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Patrick and Wade Greene, Makah from Neah Bay, WA
...are uncle and nephew and have sung together for many years. Wade is the main composer of songs for the family and says there "is nothing in this universe that compares to native culture.” Sadly, we recently got word that Patrick (left) passed on in 2005.
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Anita Anquo, Kiowa from OK
Has a wonderful laugh and many stories to tell. Be sure to see the picture of her with her sister in their beautiful shawls on the artist page..
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Woodlin Lois, Choctaw from Mississippi
...lives with his wife. They both work tirelessly to keep the culture strong and to teach the music and dances to the young people of the community.
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Forrest Chimerica, Hopi from Phoenix, AZ
...drums and sings for a youth dance group that started as a single performance and now has many members. He carves Kachinas, earrings, and other items to sell at fairs. Kachinas are sacred objects and Forrest feels people need to regard them as items of spirit.
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Barnaby Lewis, Akimel O'odham from Coolidge, AZ
... sings mostly bird songs he learned from two of his elders who have passed away. An elder’s group called “The River People Oriole Singers” lead the songs and keep them alive. The eldestis 84 and the youngest is 68. The Akimel O’odham used to be known as the Pimas.
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Danny Lopez, Tohono O'odham from Big Fields, AZ
... is a teacher and traditional man from south of Tucson on Sonoran Deser. The land out there has a large and lonely quality; a sky that makes a person feel small. We interviewed Danny beneath that sky in a summer kitchen.
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Tewa Pueblo Women's Choir from San Juan Pueblo, NM
... is made up of mostly elderly women ranging from sixty to eighty. Their love of the music brings them together to share their languge and culture with others. They translate familiar hymns into the language of the Tewa.
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Frank Lapena, Wintu from Sacramento, CA
...is an artist, scholar, and singer and is joined in this program by Brian. Frank and Brian work tirelessly to preserve the strict traditional forms of the music and dance in their area.
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Linda Yamani, Rumsian Ohlone from Monterey, CA
... is both a talented artist and musican. She has spent years painstakingly surrecting the Ohlone music from old wax cylinders from as early as 1902. It is both her life goal and her greatest challenge. Ironically, the missions are responsible for both the extreme loss of culture--and for preserving it on old was cylinders.
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